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Louisa May Alcott's Life Sketches is a 40 minute readers theater-style presentation on the early life of Louisa May Alcott, in her own words and focusing on her time as one of the first nurses during the Civil War.

This program was originally made possible by an NEH grant received by the Providence Pubklic library in support of an ALA Public Outreach Program and the Library Friends.